Disturbing Business Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Organization

by Carl Rhodes

Book Overview

21st century Western neoliberalism has seen the transformation of self-interest from an economic imperative to a centrally constitutive part of dominant modes of subjective existence. Against this celebration of competitive individualism, Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy stands as a haunting reminder of an ethics that passively disturbs the self from its egoistic slumber, awakening it to the incessant demands of the other. Ethics stands as an anxious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367513919
• ISBN13: 9780367513917
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"